{"id":52277,"date":"2018-07-13T09:42:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T13:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=52277"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:01","slug":"armstrong-provinces-prepare-to-push-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/07\/armstrong-provinces-prepare-to-push-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMSTRONG: Provinces prepare to push pot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research in\u00a0Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/provinces-prepare-to-push-pot-99324?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20July%2012%202018&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20July%2012%202018+CID_ef1dc4b5414a6a69a3ca576bd25f3de5&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Provinces%20prepare%20to%20push%20pot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a piece recently published in The Conversation <\/a>about Ontario&#8217;s preparations for marijuana retailing.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>Cannabis retailing isn\u2019t Doug Ford\u2019s top priority as Ontario\u2019s new premier. But it\u2019s on his agenda.\u00a0As he said in June: \u201cThe stated goal \u2026 is to ensure that we can tackle the illegal market.\u201d To pursue that goal, Ontario and other provinces with only public sector cannabis retailing have a lot to do before sales begin Oct. 17.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One of Ford\u2019s first meetings this month might be with the Ontario Cannabis Retail Corporation (OCRC). Back in December, Ontario became the first province to pass enabling legislation. But it\u2019s fallen behind in implementation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One problem is that the OCRC hasn\u2019t confirmed any cannabis to sell.\u00a0It asked growers to submit offers\u00a0in April, but hasn\u2019t announced any contracts yet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Similarly, Nova Scotia is apparently still\u00a0considering growers\u2019 proposals.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/provinces-prepare-to-push-pot-99324?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20July%2012%202018&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20July%2012%202018+CID_ef1dc4b5414a6a69a3ca576bd25f3de5&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Provinces%20prepare%20to%20push%20pot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research in\u00a0Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, wrote a piece recently published in The Conversation about Ontario&#8217;s preparations for marijuana retailing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,6],"tags":[594,4395,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52277"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52281,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52277\/revisions\/52281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}